Sen. Al Franken: Student loan debt is damaging America’s economic growth

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35. He's goddamn fucking right it's a problem

We have people on DU whining and complaining that social issues aren't being talked about enough and pretending the financial issues will just take care of themselves. Bullshit!

There are millions of people marred in student loan debt in the US and we are doing very little about it. Obama has been able to get through some small changes on his own, but it's hardly enough. If we continue to play business as usual (with Congress taking no action) our country is going to have another huge bubble burst. Trillions in debt that will go into default.

Even IF we are able to get a Democrat elected in 2016 and take back the House and Senate we couldn't get shit passed. We will continue to sit and wait until the bubble bursts yet again. Big banks own the White House and Congress and 2016 won't be any different. Barring some miracle we will have a DLC president and a Congress full of worthless bluedogs (one of whom happens to be my worthless bluedog, Congressman Kurt Schrader) because why the fuck would we want to support anyone with progressive ideas. That's a dirty fucking word. Then once the bubble bursts it will once again be bailout time.

Either we have to get serious about taking care of the financial issues or learn to live with the continued fall out.